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Domeday mentions a 'quarter of a church' at Bole, today's church dates from the 13th century and was restored by Ewan Christian in 1866.

The first church of All Saints was consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1900.

The first Roman Catholic priest appointed in Denaby Main was Father Kavanagh in 1894. Services took place in a disused schoolroom near the railway.

St Barnabas church in Great Tey is a beautiful building, standing prominently in the centre of the village in a well kept churchyard containing a considerable number of Georgian and early Victorian headstones and tombs.

Wombwell, mentioned in the Doomsday Survey of 1086 as Wambella, increased its population dramatically in the 19th century with the development of coal mines and other industries.

A Christian place of worship for well over 1000 years, with monastic foundations prior to 1066, All Saints Silkstone is well worth discovery.

It is likely that there has been a church on this site from at least 1100, maybe earlier, when Hawkhurst belonged to the Abbot of Wye, and then of Battle.

St Mary's church is sited in the grounds of Riseholme Hall and was built by Bishop John Kaye.